Two questions for Ned Lamont

We have 132,000 of our bravest troops stuck in the middle of a bloody civil war in Iraq. And I say it’s high time we bring them home to the hero’s welcome.

Help me out here, you Lamont zombies. If our troops are doing something bad by fighting in Iraq, why should we regard them as heroes? Conversely, if they are indeed heroes then why should we pull them out before they finish their heroic task?